Dana White Explains Why Shogun Did Not Earn Title Shot At UFC on FOX 4

shogun needs one more fight to prepare him for jon. I believe that he can take him but he needs to be well prepared. One more win then his cardio will be up to par and he will build his confidence up. He needs to fight a wrestler maybe phill davis or rashad evans to prepare him for jones.

To marvelous
You new in the game? any fleet footed fighter like machida or gusstafson would just dance around him and pick him apart??????
Shogun already KTFO of machida and everybody gave him the W in the first fight. It seems like you dont know who shogun is. One bad performance and people start bitching.

Its better for Shogun to not get a shot right away.
If Jones beats Hendo then it would set up Jones/Machida 2 & Hendo/Shogun 2, which works out perfect in my eyes.

Vera vs Bader too, they would (should) both be very motivated for that fight.

@marvelous mad madam mim did you forget that Shogun beat Machida (knocked him out) and probably beat him the first fight they had (very very close decision).

@MMA_KING let’s not forget that the loss to Forrest was after a major knee operation and so was the Coleman fight. AND he avenged his loss to Griffin with a brutal KO. I do agree however that his fight with Vera was less then stellar… Both seemed exhausted after RD1…WTF!

@4M you are absolutely correct. Shogun loves to just stand in front of his opponents and brawl. He takes alot of damage and its starting to build up. He really needs to work on fighting like a fencer(Machida). But his style makes great fights!! I don’t know what to tell you bc he beat Machida with his style twice. But with Jones he better work on dancing and using angles like Dominic Cruz bc it will be a repeat of his last defeat. But then again, Bones caught him early with a flying knee and Shogun was from then on out in survival mode. This fight showed that he can stand in front of HW’s and take their shots and finish them. If Bones rematches, I believe Shogun will use this same brawling strategy and this time finish him. Unless he gets caught early with a flying knee again. We already know Bones has no KO power in his punches or kicks!! Also Shogun was no where near 100% in his first fight vs Jones!!!

Shogun didnt look so Hot,he doesnt deserve a shot at the title yet,if they fought again Lyoto would beat him.

Shogun have not yet realized that the sport evolved and he needs to make changes. Its hard for me to say that specially because I am a proud brazilian.
He needs to invest some more in his future otherwise he will be done soon and became a gate keeper, and that will be sad.

shogun is done to much knee injury,last 3 fight no legs kick what so ever

Ya’ll forgettin about Gustafson. he might have what it takes to beat Jon Jones. Machida looked Anderson Silva -like even though Bader kinda just stood there. And Jones owned Shogun so bad that I dont want that rematch

caxias all the more reason why you(a Brazilian) should know that it’s thanks to this lame brand of watered down MMA promulgated here in the States by ufc, unified rules, Vana white, marc RATner & co. That Shogun Rua’s arsenal has been completely deemed illegal. Even this very fight with Vera could of ended early in Shogun’s favor on several occasions had it been in Japan due to 4point attacks & stomps.

I think this was a tune up fight for shogun. It seemed liked he was working on some of the weaker parts of his game. More take downs and g/p. Shogun should take it easy he’s been in a bunch of tough fights. Then let the title fight come to him. Plus shogun vs Vera was stylistically a tougher fight oppose to machida vs bader. Everybody saw that ko coming. Shogun passed on Glover Teixeira bc nobody knows who he is except joe rogan.

because he looked slow and shitty